Word: holmeses
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Since the late great Justice Holmes died, in 1935, he has been the subject of eight books and 47 major articles. The latest is the most romantic - a fictionalized biography by Catherine Drinker Bowen, co-author with Barbara Von Meek of Beloved Friend (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937), fictionalized biography of...
There were only 27 states in the U.S. when Oliver Wendell Holmes was born (1841). William Henry (Tippecanoe) Harrison was President. Daniel Webster was Secretary of State. The best people believed in a twelve-hour day for work men ("The morals of the operatives," said one observer, "will necessarily suffer...
Holmes fans do not admit that the man whom G. K. Chesterton called "the only real legend of our time" is just a character in a detective story. They insist that since his last public appearance (1927) in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Holmes has simply retired from his...
*Profile by Gaslight (Simon & Schuster: $2.75), edited by Edgar W. Smith, a collection of serious Holmesian studies and whimsies by 36 Holmes admirers, including the late Heywood Broun, Dorothy Sayers, Elmer Davis, Christopher Morley, Rex Stout; The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Little, Brown: $2.50), edited by Ellery Queen, 33 Holmesian...
* In his darker moments, Holmes used a 7% cocaine solution as a pick-me-up.